What a naïve trickle of nonsense!

Tess has the style which might make her a success in producing items for the social pages, but she has neither the comprehension nor the temperament to attempt this topic

Who cares whether she rejoices in the death of Bin Laden? Everyone is entitled to their own reaction, and it has little relevance to the overall situation.

The only sensible course of action on Bin Ladin was his termination. It is a shame that the current dunce in the White House has made such a mess of handling the presentation of it.

It is reminiscent of when Carter was President, and the US became a world laughing stock

Bush put in train the events which led to this successful milestone, and the follow up required someone of his calibre. Without him this outcome would never have been achieved.

Obama is like the dog which one day caught the truck he chased every day. He has no idea what to do with it.

How do you fathom the mentality of someone who spends millions of dollars blocking access to evidence of his birth, and then produces that evidence?

John Donne was right. “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved with Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
Tess Lawrence was right at least twice over.
1)Osama's extrajudicial execution is no cause for celebration.
2)Bush the Younger morphed a criminal act into an act of war.
How much better would the world be today had 9/11 been treated as the horrendous crime it always was! Police (if need be with military backing) could and would have been dispatched to apprehend and arrest. We could have had a public trial instead of a mafia hit with a body now 'sleeping with the fishes'. Isn't that directly from the first Godfather?
But never doubt that the legacy of 9/11 will live with us for ages to come. Look around - do you see all those CCTV cameras following your every move?
Thanks George. Thanks Osama.

But never doubt that the legacy of 9/11 will live with us for ages to come
halduell,
It is the legacy of us which brought about 9/11. It might make us cringe in shame but it won't hurt us westerners to look over & beyond the white picket fence without rose-coloured glasses.
I certainly don't like what terrorism is doing but I can't help thinking that much of comes from our actions.

Reading between the lines I have to agree with "Cheryl" - this article is a waste of time. But I can't resist responding.

George W represents a major blip in the U.S. political system, but did the world a favour - by highlighting the manic approach the U.S. had taken for so long to world affairs. We don't need to revisit Vietnam, etc.... Bin Laden pointed the finger at the U.S. for past and continuing misdeeds, and called for reprisals. George W responded with more of the same old U.S. response, but with brass knobs on. Where are things now? Trying to unravel, to win hearts and minds with "reconstruction" - but in who's image? Fortunately events in Tunisia, Egypt, etc may eventually achieve what the U.S. was never going to be able to achieve with its heavy handed approach - freedom and democracy for the populace, and an end to the massive graft and corruption supposedly fueled by U.S. handouts.

The major problem remains - how to exit honourably. Though Bin Laden was essentially no longer significant even before his death, he has nonetheless left a legacy of hate and memory which will be difficult to overcome. (I was going to say expunge - but that would be more of the same old mistaken approach.) Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Bahrain, Iran, etc... The big question is whether the populace of these nations can achieve the "reconstruction" they all require, and whether the rest of the world can assist in this - but without unacceptable "meddling" in the process or in the resultant outcomes. I guess we will have to wait and see.

The world should be thankful that Barack Obama won the last U.S. presidential election over McCaine and his flibbertigibbet offsider, and we should all be hoping that he will be re-elected in 2012. He may not be perfect, and has perhaps tried to achieve too much too quickly, but he has given cause for hope for an end to what has been, and unfortunately still remains, a sad period in world history.

Tess,
I like your sentiments.
But as clever as they are.... and pertinent...., the fact remains that until the cycle of dirty, devious politics expires in the US, or the Chinese rise to #1 resulting from US debt and immorality, the world will be destined to tolerate the sludge that the US electoral system dredges up every four years to produce yet another corrupt collection of representatives; the cycle then off and running once again.
Then we will have even more farce as computer graphics improve even more, lies that are never reported nor seriously investigated, the development of wars in countries like Afghanistan growing the world's supply of drugs per courtesy of the US military, beneficiaries on the way through.

So we have a long way to go to clean the air, initiatives for which will not come from this little Pacific sporting stadium happy to remain a little tail attached to a large, overfed and belligerent attack dog. You don’t progress as a nation following other nations who in recent memory, have produced mass murderers such as Kennedy, Johnson , Bush and now the puppet, Obama.

So “pray for Osama who persecutes you” is the message today.

A rationalist may see the logic in the theme.
Others, however, will sweep the story of Osama bin Laden from their consciousness treating the whole al Qaeda matter as they would another regrettable international misadventure, instead as it was in reality just groups of isolated tribesmen from faraway places, united by an ordinary but organised man against his idea of evil, in this case
‘America, the terrorist invader’ and as the media tell the story, who went on to frighten the whole world by creating fear of the unknown (or, as not yet created by the CIA) . This has developed a whole new industry in which the two beneficiaries, Israel and the USA were best able to capitalise, which they did and are still doing today.

So what’s new?

End of story, says Obama. We have some more videos to make and an election to fight.

So you don't think that Bin Laden organised and funded terrorist actions and organisations around the world including 9/11? What reaction would you have expected from a nation like the U.S to an action like that on its soil - turn the other cheek? I'm willing to accept that the truth can be muddled or lost in the politics and that root causes of conflict are often overlooked but to suggest that Bin Laden was nothing more than an exaggerated fantasy of the U.S sounds silly.